kind of an update

I bet you’re all tired of just seeing pictures (yeah, right!) but there’s really not that much to update. But here goes anyway …

1. Nighttime sleeping – she’s awesome. She goes to bed around 10:30 and wakes up at 2:30, 5:30 and 8:30 to eat. I take her bottle out of the mini-fridge we have in our room, put it in the crock pot, change her diaper, feed her, and put her back down. Takes about 20 minutes MAX. Last night, she ended up staying awake longer than usual, but she was super tired, so I put her down without rocking her to sleep and went to bed. She grunted and looked around for a while and then fell asleep all by herself. She rocks!!

2. Napping – not so great, but the secret is to put her in the Moby wrap, and then she’s out like a light. For hours. I actually have to wake her up to change her diaper and feed her.

I did put her down in her crib for the first time yesterday to see how she would do. She napped for about 25 minutes before she woke up, so not bad.

3. Eating – she’s a pig! Just kidding. She’s right on schedule as far as how much she should be eating, but she tends to “graze” during the day – meaning, she eats about 2 oz every hour instead of 3-4oz every few hours. It’s kind of tiring after a while, but she should fall into a regular schedule soon. She is really growing, though.

4. Smiling – I got my first toothless, eye-squinching, wide-mouth grin today, and it was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. She’s always super happy first thing in the morning, and she was grinning all over the place this morning.

5. Growing – I can tell a major difference in her size, but she’s still in newborn clothes. Even her 0-3 months stuff is still a little bit too big. I don’t think she’s quite 10lbs, yet, but she might be by the time we go to the pediatrician on Monday. I can’t wait to see how big she is!

Okay, the story behind the little thing on her head. A lady that Daddy used to work with (I think) crocheted (or knitted? I don’t know the difference) Emma a bunch of clothes. Really, really cute stuff! One of the items was this little bandana (kerchief? doo-rag?), so I tried it on her this morning and almost died from the cuteness.

Then, one of my friends knitted her a sweater and cap for this upcoming winter, so I decided to try that one on her, too. Warning: cuteness overload!

Anyway, here’s all of the stuff that Emma has to look forward to wearing. Oh, who am I kidding — stuff that I look forward to putting on Emma!

So overall, things are going really well. Even tonight, Ken’s playing tennis, and I didn’t feel like crying when he left. Everyone says that it’s easy by around 6 weeks, and I have to agree. I almost can’t remember those horrible first 2 weeks. Almost.